Not only is it a horrible stereotype he's referring to...by saying the only way we can react is through violence...but its also rediculously foolish to make it seem that we, Black people are the only ones invested in democracy.
done anything upsetting, corrupting, or pressuring.
Al Sharpton has kept his mouth shut.
Jesse Jackson has done little to discourage the Clintons from cracking up.
Other civil rights era leaders: Joseph Lowry and others have made their voices scarce.
They have removed themselves from the national scene on election primary issues. Even the NAACP where Rev. Wright spoke did not have numbers of pastors who came out looking for microphone to talk about the black church or the black experience.
You compare the black establishment to the organizations who support HRC and you will see a drastic difference.
If that meeting were next week, we still wouldn't see what Gore Vidal is talking about advocated on television nor would we see people saying we need to go in that direction.
It makes so much more sense to say that Vidal made his opinion known, no one is talking about it for good reason, and we're going forward.
He continues: “I’d always rather liked her. She’s a perfectly able lawyer . . . But this long campaign, this daily search for the grail, has driven her crazy.”
In his view Barack Obama has won; and if the nomination is taken away from him, “I fear what our black population might do. There has never been a revolution of blacks – yet”.
During the Clinton administration, Vidal admired Bill’s understanding of the poor and of black people. His devotion to the Clintons has now been laid aside, however. By clinging on to her campaign, waiting for the small chance that Obama will make a terminal mistake, Hillary has crossed a line, he believes.
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